Psychopathic Tendencies - Jerry Sandusky & Lance Armstrong by Louis Evan Palmer

When one's sees or hears or reads about Jerry Sandusky & Lance Armstrong, one can't help being  struck by their stolid unblinking claims of innocence in the face of numerous bonafide accusations & evidence about events and actions that took place over a long period of time. The 26+ statements  from different members of the racing program of which Lance Armstrong was a part are brushed aside as disinformation and distortions. Some 10 victims came forward with evidence of abuse at the hands of Sandusky, yet, according to him, they're all lying and mistaken. Lance Armstrong won't testify or defend himself because it's gone all too long and he wants to move on. Jerry Sandusky claims the same, liars out to get him.

It does sound familiar as more of these psychopathic types are brought to justice. The abuse of power, the oblivious lying, the lack of guilt or remorse, lack of empathy; it goes on. We desperately need a simple way to detect psychopaths as they are a true menace to society.

Psychopathic Tendencies - Jerry Sandusky & Lance Armstrong, The Way It Can Be, Louis Evan Palmer
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Tweedledee & Tweedledum-mer - Canada & Britain Sharing Embassies by Louis Evan Palmer

Canada apparently spent all that time and effort becoming independent of Great Britain for naught because in a twinkling, our Minister for External Affairs, the Loud, Bumbling John Baird has swept it away. Canada will now "share" embassies with Britain. No country or people will think less of Canada because of it, he tells us. It is not a  return to colonialism. Canada will continue to have its own policies and not necessarily be aligned  with Britain. But really, when those questions get asked, you're already there, you're already compromised. It doesn't matter how the embassy entrances look, is it to the left for Canada? It doesn't matter what the relative square footage will be for each "partner". It's a common law marriage in all but name. The perception regarding Canada's stature is devastating. It diminishes Canada in every way and on the world stage no less. Could Baird have picked a more damaging thing  to do short of traipsing into another war with Mother Britain or Big Brother America? Hardly. The Conservatives rabid right is emerging  into the broad daylight looking for enemies both foreign and domestic, firmly in the thrall of its historic me-first allies and their current political tendencies.



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Extravagant Redundant Olympics by Louis Evan Palmer

When the modern Olympics were reconstituted in 1896, there were few, if any, international sporting events. Bringing athletes together every four years from a number of countries was a good exercise in peaceful relations and served to inspire people and athletes alike.

Nowadays, it seems superfluous. There are international & national federations for every Olympic event who hold large world-class competitions annually so that in any given year, an athlete in any given sport can compete several times a year at the very top levels.
Given that, we can safely say that the Olympics are superfluous from the perspective of affording world-class competition. In fact, the Olympics are un-necessary and extravagant when fans and supporters can easily go to world-class competitions of the sports they follow.

Why continue with these immensely costly exercises in civic and national pride when they add nothing to the opportunities available to top-notch athletes that can't be gained by enhancing their national and international sporting bodies at far less cost and effort?

Is it only for publicity's sake that we're assuming huge debts and creating huge security exposures? Is it the Olympics rituals and ceremonies that make us willing to go such great lengths to host these games? Is to feed national pride and build international stature? It's likely all three reasons and more; is it worth it?

Some of the sports have their own highly successful leagues and championships to which competing in the Olympics can only add confusion and risk. Soccer (or football) leaps to mind. Do we need more?

There may come a time when no city will bid to host the Olympics. It will be seen to be what it has become - extravagant and redundant.  


Extravagant Redundant Olympics, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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Motion-Picture Identity by Louis Evan Palmer

Continuity out of Points, Motion out of Snapshots

Nagarjuna famously said that everything is derived from mutual dependence. In trying to understand this statement, we can look at the "outputs" that define a person to us yet are, when we look at them, mere wisps. Words that issue from someone either spoken or written - which constitute the person to us, at the time, and we can record their words to give them more seeming weight and reality; but, in the end, they are disassociated fragments. The person, the entity, continues separately from the words that issue forth. The words may, or may not, mean anything to us; even if we understand them, they may be of little import to us. In all cases, they are not the "person" - they come from the person, they represent the person or their state of mind and feeling at the time, yet they have become "separate".

What we look at shares this disconnectedness. Our mind threads the stills we see into a moving reality. It eliminates the hole where our optic nerve disrupts the visual field. It reflects its training - training that we spent years learning when we were infants and young children and we could devote undivided attention to these things. Now, we don't know what we learned then and what determines what we see as our we see our expectations as much as what actually registers on our field of vision.

If we move towards our awareness itself and our sense of identity, we might find that it too is stitched together from singularities. We might find that like a motion picture, we create a fabric out of separate instances and that our memory and identity fade when the light of our awareness isn't shining on them. Is it that then that is the foundation? The abiding awareness that we notice from time to time but which weaves the world we know around us. Is it that awareness that strings together the innumerable vignettes that roll around us and in us? And, is there a larger world or beingness in which our consciousness swims?

Zeno of Elea delved into this arena with his pardoxes of plurality, motion and change See "Zeno's Paradoxes" edited by Wesley C. Salmon.

Can it be that when we scratch the surface, even a little, we strike a mystery? No matter where we look or when.


Motion-Pictyre Identity, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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